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Even back in 1892-93 when I attended what was then called the Throop Polytechnic Institute at Pasadena, Calif., the laboratories and manual-training shops outnumbered the classrooms about five to one. I had one grievance: after the professor had given me high marks on my lab notes, they passed under the sharp eyes of the English teacher, and she would sentence me to an hour every afternoon for two weeks among the short-pants boys in the prep department to learn how to spell. I wonder if they still do that...
Williams and J. K. Galbraith, professor of Economics, sketched possible patterns for monetary and fiscal controls. Dan Throop Smith, professor of Finance at the Business School, warned that high excess profits taxes could prove a barrier to entry and expansion...
...these men is a stranger to me, but I am willing to be that he is no Yale man, because the two with he is shown are fellow Princeton '45 classmates of mine. The fellow in the middle is Jim Mills, and on the right stands Pete Throop. Both got their raccoon coats at Princeton long ago. Both graduated from Yale Law, class of '50. And a closer look at the third man, who is shown only side view, convinces me that he is Stu Carrothers, but has been frequently in these parts with Mills and Throop...
Adoption of an excess profits tax under present conditions of partial mobilization would be dangerous to the efficiency and growth of our economic system, writes Dan Throop Smith, professor of Finance at the Business School, in the November number of the "Harvard Business Review." "The real loss to the country from the enactment of excess profits taxation," the author believes, "would come from waste and from undeveloped potentialities--potential new companies and potential areas of new development for established companies...
Eliot: Albert B. Carter, Jr. '49, Peter H. Clayton '50, Henry R. Guild, Jr. '50, Samuel A. Lawrence '50, Charles P. Summerall III '51, and Throop M. Wilder...